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Not all reviews on GameFaqs are crap, at least the reviews of Brian Hodges – who wrote the on above – are pretty good. I am even thinking about asking for permission to post his reviews and thos of others on the site as “reader reviews”…
I will also write my own Insmouse review sometime and of other games like Wario Land, if I just had the time and motivation to sit down and do it… ~__~

If you are not a collector and just want to play it, DON’T buy it, simply because of the price. Here a review of Insmouse btw:
<http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/vboy/review/R53027.html>

I recently got Insmouse No Yakata and bought a US Pre-Production Prototype Virtual Boy, which will hopefully be here in a few weeks

EDIT: Proto arrived last week \^_^/

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Since there weren’t any backup units or such for the VB, you have to build a reprogrammable cartridge yourself. What you have to do is basically opening one of your games (Best choice would be a game with save ram like Teleroboxer, G. Pinball or Wario. Since you’ll destroy the game, better take Teleroboxer ;), and replacing the ROM chip with 2 sockets for Flash Chips. Project:VB has excellent building instructions. This will require some soldering skills and several hours of time, and you’ll also need an Eprom writer to write the roms to the flash chips.
BTW, who were those people talking about playing the homebrewn stuff on a real VB? Are there really other people than us few freaks doing it?

Latest news: Nintendo’s President Iwata said that the new product will not be a new Game Boy or Gamecube, but a completely new console, which be sold parallel to the other two. What else could it be if not VB2 ;D

Hey!

You first choice for the rare 3 would be <http://www.vb-store.com>, for Jack Bros (US) and Waterworld, I suggest you check ebay. Waterworld seems to be pretty cheap at the moment, but expect to pay quite a lot of money for a complete Jack Bros :/

KR155E

How much would that Space Squash cost?

Willkommen an Bord!
Nen VB kriegst du am besten bei ebay, alternativ haben wir aber auch ein Händler-Register in unseren Links.
Zum Thema Augen kann ich dich beruhigen, das ist nicht mehr als ein dummes Märchen. Solange du nicht grad 2 Tage lang durchzockst und danach in die pralle Sonne starrst, kann da nüscht passieren Also im Grunde ist es wie mit allen, halt nicht übertreiben.
Darf ich zum Schluß noch einen Rat erteilen? KAUF! :)) Du wirst den VB lieben. Dazu am besten VB Wario Land, Red Alarm und Galactic Pinball.

KR155E

Hey emul8this!

Veeery bad thing, I feel sorry for you Especially the Gundam… I’m gonna send you some high-res scans of the inserts I found on my HDD.

KR155E

Hehe. No, nothing happens when you start up the VB without a game, it does not have an Operating System (Or isn’t this the reason? Not sure, since even the Game Boy had a start up screen that was “built in”). If you want to know if it works, put your ears close to it, you should be able to hear the mirrors spinning, a humming sound.

KR155E

Hey geo, VB-Store.com sells them in mint and complete condition.

Got one and love it!

KR155E

Some news on the topic, from an article by Bloomberg Japan published this morning.
Nintendo of Japan’s Managing Director Yoshihiro Mori confirmed that the new Nintendo product will be released in Japan at the end of 2004, and if it’s possible they want to release it worldwide then. The new hardware will be presented on the next E3…

KR155E,
PR Manager Project VB2, NoJ

No, “Planet Virtual Boy” ;p
/me slaps DrAetzn around with a large Xbrick ehm box

KR155E

Next person that loves VB as I do is actually DrAetzn, only about 300 km away ;D

When I showed the VB to my best friend once, he borrowed it for quite some time and beat all my Galactic Pinball highscores… He never played it again after that, but that’s in is nature, he never can’t keep his interest for something up for longer than a week max. ;D Hmm, actually he played VB one more time, when I showed Blox to him.

KR155E

Hey Max, nice to see you back!

Thanks for the praise, and… more cool updates coming soon
I am looking forward to the tapes of your show, maybe we can do a little “special feature” about it or so, with screens and videos…

I have been playing a lot of GB and NES games lately, Metroid II again at the moment.

KR155E

Genau, die EXT-Buchse ist für das Link-Kabel, das leider nie veröffentlicht wurde. Einige ebenfalls unveröffentlichte Spiele wie z.B. Faceball hätten einen entsprechenden 2-Spieler Modus gehabt.

Der einzige Weg an ein Link-Kabel zu kommen ist folglich Selbermachen. Hier findest du eine Anleitung dazu:
<http://dogpn.home.mchsi.com/VirtualBoy/Dev/VBLink.htm>
Falls du nicht am VB selbst rumwerkeln willst, kannst du dir mit stinknormalen Nintendo AV-Kabeln passende Stecker für die EXT- Buchse bauen:
<http://www.emuunlim.com/VirtualE/spec001.htm>

So habe ichs gemacht, ist viel Arbeit aber das Ergebnis kann sich sehen lassen. Leider sind ein paar Pins in meinen Steckern scheinbar verbogen, sodass ich bisher noch nicht übers Kabel zocken konnte :/

Achso, ja, die einzigsten Spiele die das Link Kabel unterstützen sind homebrewn (3D Battlesnake und TicTacToe von DogP), um das Kabel auch zu benutzen müsstest du also auch noch 2 Flash-Karten bauen…

KR155E

Now THIS is “POAH!!”
<http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b43949603>
A Virtual boy Prototype :woah::woah:

KR155E

Das mit dem “im Handel sehen” ist, im Gegensatz zu einem eigenen Buch oder Anime, so ein Problem bei Spielen für eine nicht-offene Konsole. Nintendo ist je bekanntlich sehr kompromisslos bei Lizenzvergehen, und wenn jetzt einer ohne offizielle Lizenz ein Virtual Boy Spiel produzieren und im großen Stil kommerziell vertreiben würde, wäre BigN sicherlich schnell zur Stelle um denjenigen bis auf die Unterhose zu verklagen… Und ganz besonders wenn noch irgendwelche Copyrights verletzt würden, wie wenn man z.B. Sprites aus anderen Spiele “leiht” ~_~
Wir denken ja schon eine ganze Weile über einen “Modul-Release” von Blox nach, wenn dies je passieren wird, dann aber wohl nur in einem ganz kleinen Rahmen mit so 30 oder 40 Exemplaren und ohne Gewinnabsichten.

KR155E

Of course we want it be at least as good as Wario Land, but that will be a very tough job and probably take years. We’ll do our best.

We will release the rom and, most likely, the source and level editor too, so people can make their own levels, mod the game etc.

I won’t bet on it, but I guess chances are good that we’ll release it on cartridges as well (if we can get professionally made PCBs). Not commercially of course, just a few dozen carts for the hardcore VB gamers out there for the cost of materials (around $30 I guess).

Don’t get too high hopes, though, Mario VB is a huge and ambitious project… maybe too big for two people working on it in their spare time :/

KR155E